DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z March 11, 2012
Earlier Today: Upper Mississippi River Valley: Oblique angle early in the morning from GOES-West shows a detached area of thin smoke from yesterday's Flint Hills fires in E KS moving across SE IA into N IL and extreme SW WI. The area nearly matches up with the Mississippi River from Galena, IL to Keokuk, IA affecting the Quad Cities as well. This Evening: Central Plains/Midwest: Numerous agricultural burns today throughout the central plains started and upper midwest have led to several smoke plumes in this region. Most notably are a few larger smoke plumes with moderately dense or dense smoke through central/eastern MO moving to the north. Southeast US: Several fires in this region today have made for small, discrete smoke plumes moving towards the southwest. A few of the larger smoke plumes with dense smoke can be seen through eastern Georgia. North-central California: A dozen or so fires just north of the Sacramento region have led to a small area of smoke that has encompassed the valley region though this area. Belge THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS SMOKE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES AND SMOKE WHICH HAS BECOME DETACHED FROM THE FIRES AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE..TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST ARE ALSO DESCRIBED. USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO VIEW A GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF THESE AND OTHER PLUMES WHICH ARE LESS EXTENSIVE AND STILL ATTACHED TO THE SOURCE FIRE IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE: JPEG: http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/land/hms.html GIS: http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm KML: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/kml.html ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov